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Student Reflections on Course

Student 1:

  1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

    2. Wow! It’s been totally reworked. My exposure to Hirsch has hopelessly problematized my former comfort with liberal/conservative, progressive/ traditional, good/bad thinking. Our study of the standards issue, the same: this class may have been the most changed experience of my masters year.

  2. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?

    3. Think I said that.

  3. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    4. Hirsch, Coddig etc., Slavin. Upon closer inspection, Gardner didn’t give me much — maybe I already had it.

  4. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    5. Look for the theory. Is there one? Does it matter? Kids, powerful questions.

  5. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?

    Honestly, not a thing. Maybe institutionalize response to each others webposts

Student 2:

 

  1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

    2. Still accurately reflects my philosophy — Balance!

  2. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?

    3. Helped me to be more critical in looking at approached.

  3. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    4. The Hatch article! By far the most enlightening for me — we needed more of that general information. Reflections were helpful.

  4. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    5. See front J

  5. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?

    Emphasize more time on theories of action — what research is there saying it needs to be clear for a program to work

Student 3:

  1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

    2. My original description is still valid. Although, I was surprised to find how much I agreed with Hirsch! Maybe I captured my agreement with him in my statement regarding "basic skills". I hadn’t realized it at the time!

  2. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?

    3. I have realized how many holes can be punched in various "theories", which at face value seem strong.

  3. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    4. The readings were all excellent. Hirsch, Gardner and standards especially strong. I liked the reflections. Helped organize thoughts, think about reading more ways.

  4. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    5.  

  5. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?

    Keep small seminar — size. Encourage variety of students, policy, STEP, etc

Student 4:

1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

My own approach to teaching and learning has not substantially changed. I still feel like it is in the process of developing. I do know that I am more concerned about the theories that guide my approach and more aware of them.

  1. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?

    2. It has certainly given me new food for thought on a more analytical scale. I have begun to ask myself why I believe what I believe and how it affects how I teach. This is quite valuable in helping me revise my teaching approaches.

  2. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    3. Honestly all of the material has been useful — especially the dissection of Hirsch and Gardner’s theories.

  3. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    4. A new appreciation of theory, especially since it was put in a more practical view than other courses I have taken. I can see how theory is important in relation to actual practice.

  4. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?

    Probably set up criteria for judging projects earlier. Maybe more focus on projects early on too. Thanks, Tom! I enjoyed the class a lot!

Student 5:

  1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

    2. I would add that my "EVOLUTION" is MUCH further along (to the point of opposable thumbs).

  2. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?
    • Loved the web site and want to try to use one
    • Developed the criteria of "theory of learning" questions by which to consider curriculum and programs.

  3. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    4. Focus on contemporary topical issues.

  4. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    5.  

  5. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?
    • Use of example "case study" schools to showcase theories (videos)
    • Speakers from schools enacting theories

Student 6:

  1. Please review your description of your own approach to teaching and learning and your justification of your approach and comment on them. Is there anything you would like to change or add at this point, or do they still accurately reflect your approach and the rationale behind it?

    2. I still think basically the same. I would probably still want students to express their ideas and opinions but might more carefully choose to teach.

  2. In what ways has your participation in this course influenced your approach to teaching and learning and/or the rationale behind that approach?

    3. I think that I see more of the rationale behind opposing forces.

  3. Please describe any aspects of the course (particular readings, ideas, discussions, assignments etc.) that have been particularly useful or influential.

    4. It all has been useful.

  4. Please describe any other important things you got out of this course.

    5. I think I came to have a greater understanding of how reform approaches are built and implemented ….

  5. If this course is taught again, what changes would you suggest? Are there any other recommendations you have?

    The course is heavily web based — it would have been nice to read some journal articles too. I also would not have included book reviews until after we’d had the book.

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